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Reporting and Analytics uses CATracks to provide reports on the data it holds, to build self-service reports for staff, and to execute analytics projects.
CAESAR is Northwestern’s system of record for student data. Students, faculty, advisers, parents, guardians, and staff use CAESAR to manage classes and grades, pay bills, view financial aid, process admissions, and maintain demographic data.
Competitions is a software platform developed by NUCATS that supports internal grant competitions, including Clinical & Translational Science Pilot Awards and KL2 competitions.
myHR is Northwestern’s system of record for Human Resources data. Employees and Administrators can access processes and data associated with payroll, benefits, talent acquisition, and compensation.
OneDrive offers secure, cloud-based storage that lets you seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere in the world, at any time.
SharePoint is an online content and document management tool available for students, faculty, and staff to create web sites and manage file libraries.
Northwestern has agreements with Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft Azure, to provide discounted cloud hosting options for Northwestern faculty and staff.
WFS Timekeeping is the University's official time entry system of record.
Northwestern’s learning management system, Canvas, allows Northwestern instructors to deliver course materials, manage grades, and create learning activities and allows students to submit assignments and tests and view grades.
NUFinancials is the centerpiece of the University’s financial management systems. It supports the accounting and budgeting functions that feed the University’s general ledger, and works with related reporting, facilities management, purchasing, sponsored research, financial forecasting, and annual budgeting systems.
NetID services take information from the HR or student system and create unified Northwestern credentials (NetIDs) that are then connected with information about each individual. NetIDs are then used as the primary way for people to interact with IT services. Other types of NetIDs can be created as well for specific people, organizations, or IT system purposes.
NUworkspace offers users a virtual Windows desktop service that provides access to a suite of many software applications to faculty, students, and staff, including access to software packages that may not be readily available on their desktop/laptop computers.
Northwestern University's agreement with Adobe offers the full Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for use by eligible faculty and staff.
Access Northwestern's Network with an Ethernet connection from on-campus offices, classrooms, residence halls, and other locations.
SESP Technology team project management related requests and task.
NU Parking helps manage lots and permits for both the Evanston and Chicago parking offices. The system provides permitting and citation services and helps provide gate access information to the Evanston and Chicago parking lots.
Globus allows users to efficiently transfer data among storage systems, automate data management tasks, and securely share data.
Northwestern University manages two Apple Developer Program memberships on behalf of the institution: the Apple Developer Program (App Store) and the Apple Developer Enterprise Program.
Northwestern IT participates in the InCommon Certificate Program, which entitles Northwestern to issue unlimited SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) Certificates for 1 year to secure Web Servers on the northwestern.edu domain.
Regular data backups reduce the risk of permanent data loss that can occur for many reasons including hardware failure, power failure, and virus attacks. In continuing its commitment to the protection of mission critical data at the University, Northwestern IT is participating with University schools and departments to provide a secure hosted data backup solution for workstation machines.
Northwestern IT operates firewalls for the Evanston and Chicago Data Centers. Firewall rule add/change/deletes must be requested through the Firewall Ruleset Modification Request Form.
At Northwestern, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon are the main cellular service providers serving the Chicago and Evanston campuses. Each carrier maintains cell towers across the campuses to provide service to their customers.